Analysis of In Trouble and Shame
David Herbert Lawrence 1885 (Eastwood, Nottinghamshire) – 1930 (Vence)
I look at the swaling sunset
And wish I could go also
Through the red doors beyond the black-purple bar.
I wish that I could go
Through the red doors where I could put off
My shame like shoes in the porch,
My pain like garments,
And leave my flesh discarded lying
Like luggage of some departed traveller
Gone one knows not where.
Then I would turn round,
And seeing my cast-off body lying like lumber,
I would laugh with joy.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 0111110 10110101101 111111 101111111 1111001 11110 011101010 11011010100 11111 11111 0101111010110 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 428 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 3 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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